On Mar 21, 3:59 pm, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-03-21, harrelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am trying to get the below code to work and can't quite make things > > happen. This is with Python 2.5.1. Dialog is doing something odd... > > I have tinkered with different combinations and I can't get the dialog > > to show properly-- it does show properly directly in the shell. Any > > hints? > > > import subprocess > > command = '/usr/bin/dialog --clear --title "title" --menu "text" 20 50 > > 5 "a" "this and that" "c" "3 this and that" "b" "2 this and that" "d" > > "4 this and that"' > > proc = subprocess.Popen(command, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, > > stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) > > #proc = subprocess.Popen(command, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) > > stderr_value = proc.communicate()[0] > > print stderr_value > > [It would be helpful if you didn't wrap sample code when you > post it.]
Sorry I posted through google groups and it wrapped it for me... > dialog displays the widget on stdout. You've connected stdout > to a pipe, so you're not going to see anything displayed unless > you read data from the stdout pipe and write it to the terminal. Reading this tutorial on subprocess: http://blog.doughellmann.com/2007/07/pymotw-subprocess.html led me to believe this was exactly what I was doing. The screen does actually turn blue for a second but it is as if I only get one keystroke and python is back in control... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
